Chapter 270: The Worst Reunion…

Furlin, back now, murmured by my ear that Croana had appeared from the academy.

The man grabbed my right hand with both of his and resisted hard, but I did not loosen the right hand sealing his mouth.

The way he groaned and thrashed, maybe because his jaw hurt, was ridiculous. I let a smile overflow as if sneering.

This man had made Micon and Scon cry again.

He had made them remember something ugly and spat words that would become wounds.

I told myself I did not care what happened to him or what I did, but it would be a waste not to use the measures I had prepared.

Well... once I let go I meant to have him looked into for why he came to take the two of them back, and deal with it if there was danger.

Ask the two of them and the house location would come at once, and more than that this was inside the capital.

Even if I asked around myself it would not take much time to find.

Croana came up beside me, smiled wryly, looked up at me, shook her head, and spoke.

"Raide. Sorry to keep you. Will you let him go?"

"...Aah."

I threw the man to the ground as if tossing him away. He rolled and rubbed his jaw with both hands like it hurt.

Glancing at that man I took one cloth from my Magic Bag, wiped my right hand carefully, and threw that cloth at him.

There is drink in the Magic Bag so I wanted to pour it on my right hand and disinfect... but filling the academy main gate with the smell of drink is not good, of course.

I took the sheet of paper Croana held out, checked the contents, then let a smile overflow.

If this man had come to get the two of them yesterday it would have been hard.

Good. He showed the uninterested reaction I expected.

So the man on the ground with teary eyes could see it, I thrust the paper at him and started talking with a smile still on.

"Can you see this? This is the decision paper dissolving Micon and Scon’s kinship with you."

"Na’aa!? Th-that cannot! I have not accepted it!"

"Accept or not, confirmation from the country should have reached you. You ignored it twice. Hahaha! You are a grown adult. You do not understand what that means?"

The man snatched the paper from me and started reading the contents with shaking hands and a stunned face.

In the capital there are two places like what my previous life would call government offices, on 10th Street and 4th Street.

You can of course process things at the castle too, but given the capital’s numbers and size, offices were set up with the people in mind.

Only, if you file something at an office it takes a little time until it is submitted and approved directly at the castle.

This time I filed the kinship dissolution at the castle.

At an office, even at the fastest it takes twenty days until two contacts reach the other party. Bring it to the castle and they will do it in eight to ten days at the shortest.

It is fast... but you have to stand in a long line, so everyone heads to the offices.

The back of the academy is the castle. The day after the twins’ incident I confirmed with them and submitted the papers to the castle at once.

If the man had noticed the confirmation contacts and come to protest, it would not have gone this smooth, would it?

This Overworld world is still only the start of development.

Even for an important kinship dissolution, though they take confirmation, ignore two contacts from the country and it is treated as agreement and processed.

That is probably why nobles, shop managers, traveling merchants, anyone involved with money put weight on checking letters and papers from the country.

The man who slacked on that moved exactly as we wanted.

His stupidity made me want to shout thanks out loud while laughing.

I looked down at the shaking man without dropping my guard and spoke in an explaining tone so he would understand.

"Right now you have no relation to the two of them. What you are trying to do is the same as kidnapping. Be grateful soldiers have not been called."

"Th-thi-th-this cannot be allowed!"

"Allowed or not... haha. The country dutifully sent confirmation, and you were the one who ignored it, were you not?"

The man looked up at me blank. I looked down, dropped my smile, and spoke with a serious face.

I put pressure on him as if threatening, telling him with the air that if he moved it would not end quietly.

"Micon and Scon are my people, important to me. Do not come near them again. Next time I will not hold back."

"Ah... aah... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!"

Still holding the paper in one hand he clutched his head with both and crouched on the ground, shouting at I do not know what.

I checked the twins with my eyes only. Before I knew it Hiero and Pafa were beside them, comforting them.

Croana watched the man with a serious face and no slack. I stayed on guard too.

You never know what this kind of man will do. If I can speak honestly I want to stop his breath.

But he is the twins’ father, for what it is worth. I do not want to leave more trauma in their hearts.

"I received word you headed to the academy and came to look, and as I expected it is the worst state, is it?"

"...Setenia?"

"It has been a while, Raide. Well... haa. Because of that man it became the worst reunion."

At a glossy woman’s voice I lifted my eyes. Setenia was walking this way from deeper through the main gate, elegant. I tilted my head and went blank.

Wrapped in a black party dress open at the chest, the usual seductiveness almost made me drop my guard...

Even so I did not take my mind off the man. This kind of cornered man does something at times like this.

I kept the man in view, smiled with a troubled face, turned to Setenia who had stopped beside him, and asked.

"Why is Setenia here?"

"Before I begin explaining. I take you for Principal Croana. It seems someone connected to us caused you trouble this time. I am truly sorry."

"Hmm... are you the famous Setenia-dono?"

"Unpleasant information seems to be going around, but there is no mistake."

Setenia put both hands together at her belly with a meek look and lowered her head modestly to Croana.

To be honest I wish she would not lower her head in a dress open at the chest.

With Setenia’s motion those large breasts swayed seductively as if tempting, and at the same time I immediately pulled my eyes from what looked ready to show through a gap in the dress.

Croana put one hand to her chin and thought something, glanced up at me sideways, smiled wryly, and accepted Setenia’s apology.

Setenia lifted her face, looked down at the man sideways with contempt, let out a big sigh, then started explaining.

The man was the owner of a shop Setenia invested in. He had apparently let slip whether there was a playmate the same age as her grandchild Timil.

Then he said he had someone in mind, left Setenia waiting at the shop, and headed somewhere.

Wary from the petrification matter, Setenia immediately told an aide to follow the man. Then she received word he had reached the academy and hurried here.

Having explained that far, Setenia glanced at the man shaking with a blue face, folded her arms, and spoke as if fed up.

"I had a bad feeling. My hunches hit, for better or worse. Mostly the worse. Haa... you, go back to the shop quickly. Rest easy. I will not cut the relation. I will not, but if I judge there is no profit... that is as far as it goes."

The man did not even bow at Setenia’s words and ran from the academy grounds as if fleeing.

Looking at the back of a man that rude, I turned my eyes to Setenia. She was looking at his back with contempt.

Well... you. Not even apologizing. You are finished... and to Setenia who is investing in you.

"In business, that response is?"

"...I want to cut him right now. Well, he is making profit so I will watch? If it goes even a little negative I will cut him at once."

"I see..."

I smiled wryly at Setenia, then turned my whole body, and gently stroked the heads of the twins clinging to Hiero and Pafa.

I looked at Hiero and Pafa, lowered my head, and asked them to see the twins to Nifa Inn. "If something weird comes close I will wipe it out!" "Un. Leave it to us." Their agreement let me let out a breath of relief.

At that timing Fia and Lea came back and approached, doubtful at our state.

When I explained the circumstances they said, "You get pulled in too much, do you not?" "I am having fun though!" I smiled with a troubled face and rubbed the back of my neck with one hand.

Fia and Lea said they would see the twins to Nifa Inn too. I lowered my head to them as well and got wry smiles... why?

While I saw off the six of them heading to Nifa Inn, Setenia was seeing them off the same way and murmured with a warm, envious look.

"They are... treasured, are they not..."

"I treasure Setenia too, you know?"

"...You do not pick up a voice at a time like this. Did your lovers not teach you?"

"Setenia-dono, better to give up. Raide picks up everything he can pick up. If you show even a little fragility, that gets picked up too."

Croana, you are not wrong... but could you not say it while smiling at me as if fed up?

I smiled with a troubled face and rubbed the back of my neck hard. The two of them laughed at me happily.

Well. A lot happened, but the matter of Micon and Scon has paused for now.

If the man bothers them again, not only his life but his shop will be in danger.